Salient. An organ of student opinion at Victoria College Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 5 April 19, 1939
[review of women's basketball]
Off and on from nine till two on Monday the four basketball teams fought strenuously for the only all-women's trophy of the tournament. Each College had three games of forty minutes to play in this time-Victoria playing the first and second game with only a ten minutes' break. Even the twenty minutes on and twenty minutes off scheme did not alleviate the strain; Victoria's Glucose-D, lemons and talc powder footbaths helped, and we privately think that these modern and scientific methods turned the tables our way. Certainly the green tunics stood up to a terrific morning's work and lasted better than Otago in the last game. Although far from Auckland's monotonous run of wins in the early days of the contest. Victoria College has now won the Basketball Shield for the third successive year. No Victoria University College sport has done as well in recent years.
The results were:—
- First Round.—Victoria 22. Canterbury 6; Auckland 21. Otago 15.
- Second Round.—Victoria 14. Auckland 11; Otago 33. Canterbury 6.
- Third Round.—Victoria 11. Otago 7; Auckland 37. Canterbury 7.